How to Stop Your Dog Pulling on the Lead

The Dog is Pulling on a Lead: Why and What to Do?

One of the most widespread complaints of dog owners of their
pets` behaviour - the dog pulling on lead. It is difficult to
deny catastrophic consequences of this bad habit. The majority
of dog owners are irritated, walk a little and in bad mood, let
off the dog leash in the most improper places (for example, by
the side of the roads) or in the wrong time (in heat). And all
these because of extremely difficulties when dog pulling on
leash during walking.

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In addition, the constant pressure on the dog`s neck
and leash pulling often lead to neck injuries (from trachea
injuries on out to cervical vertebra injuries). Pains in
cervical vertebra can lead to other more complicated behavioural
problems.

Why the problem of dog pulling on the leash is so
widespread?
There are several reasons of such dog behaviour:

1. The most common cause is when the dog pulls on
the leash somewhere and we follow him. This keeps the dog
pulling there, where he wants to go. As his handler follows him.

2. Leash jerks. Embarrassing and cripply it may
sound, but leash jerks are also teach our dogs pulling. We slack
the dog lead before jerking and then give a strong pull. The dog
associates the leash slacking with the neck pain.

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3. Overexcitement. When the dog pulls in any
direction wherever the dog owner goes, looses of the dog lead,
keeps on barking, can't keep its mind on something, rushes to
and fro. It`s a difficult task to wean such a dog off pulling.
You need to reduce excitement of your dog for a start (it`s
better to ask a dog behaviour trainer for help), and only after
that to get to work with a problem of dog leash tension.

4. The dog is walked on a dog lead roulette sometimes or
regularly. We won`t pay attention to the eternal dispute
about using the dog leash roulette, but the matter is that the
principle of the roulette is the lead extending so the dog gets
there where he wants. Moreover, the dog gets used to a constant
tension of the lead roulette rather quickly and accepts this as
norm.